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Spokane IWW office is raided, leaders are arrested, and martial law i
On August 19, 1917, the Spokane office of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies) is raided, leaders are arrested, and martial law is declared. The military authority is the National Guard, controlled by the U.S. War Department. This occurs in reaction to a demand by IWW leader James Rowan that all prisoners of the "class war" (he means Wobbly strikers and strike leaders involved in a statewide lumber strike) be released or Spokane would face a general strike.
Soldiers and sailors attack the Seattle IWW office and police arrest 41 Wobblies on June 16, 1917.
On June 16, 1917, soldiers and sailors attack the Seattle office of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or Wobblies). Instead of protecting the office from attack, Seattle police arrest 41 members of the union. A radical, democratic union founded in 1905, the IWW is on the verge of leading a strike of Northwest loggers, mainly for the eight-hour day, that will virtually halt the timber industry in the state.
Lumber Workers Industrial Union, IWW, holds founding convention in Spokane on March 5, 1917.
On March 5, 1917, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, IWW, holds its founding convention in Spokane. The union, which includes both loggers and sawmill workers, is a unit within the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and represents the continuing progress of a new way of organizing within the IWW that began in 1914 with the founding of the Agricultural Workers Organization (AWO). During the summer of 1917 a strike of lumber workers will paralyze the industry across the state of Washington.
Spokane-based Lumber Workers Industrial Union, IWW, formally begins w
On June 20, 1917, the Spokane-based Lumber Workers Industrial Union No. 500, IWW, formally begins what will become a massive loggers' strike. The radical union calls the strike in the midst of an epidemic of small, spontaneous strikes throughout the "short-log" region (the pine log region east of the Cascades). Within two weeks logging operations within this region will cease.
Forest & Lumber Workers Union of IWW strike sawmills in Hoquiam on March 4, 1912.
On March 4, 1912, sawmill workers in Hoquiam, located on Grays Harbor on the Olympic Peninsula, go out on strike. Within a few days the strike spreads to Raymond, Cosmopolis, and Aberdeen, nearby lumber towns in Grays Harbor County. The strikers are members of the Forest & Lumber Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). To Emancipate the Working Class The IWW was an "industrial" union that embraced and organized both skilled and unskilled workers within particular industries.
Boeing Machinists Strike, 1948
On April 22, 1948, the Aeronautical Machinists Union, IAM District Lodge 751, struck the Boeing Company. William Allen was then president of Boeing. For the Machinists the issues were preserving longstanding seniority rules that the company wanted to scrap, and achieving a 10 cent per hour raise for all categories of labor. The strike was characterized by the unusual occurrence of another union, Dave Beck's Teamsters, collaborating with the company to defeat the machinists union.
SPEEA Union (Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace)
In early 1944, a few score engineers at the Boeing Company founded the Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association. Although not quite a union in the traditional sense, the new group worked to represent the interests of engineers and technicians at Boeing. Relations were generally cordial, but growing strains led SPEEA members to conduct a one-day protest strike in January 1993.
West Coast Waterfront Strike of 1934
Along with every other major West Coast port, Seattle's harbor was paralyzed from May 9 to July 31, 1934, by one of the most important and bitter labor strikes of the twentieth century. The struggle pitted the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA, reorganized as the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, ILWU, in 1937) against steamship owners, police, and hostile public officials.
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